Arn Anderson has responded after Triple H shared one of his most memorable locker room speeches on the latest episode of Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast. Following the episode’s release, Anderson took to X with a simple but pointed reaction: “I still believe this as much today as I did then. Thanks, Triple H.”
I still believe this as much today as I did then. Thanks, Triple H.
— Arn Anderson (@TheArnShow) April 11, 2026
The speech Triple H referenced was delivered by Anderson to a group of performers frustrated with their positions on the card. Triple H used it to illustrate what he called his biggest pet peeve when working with talent: watching performers create their own bitterness over things that ultimately do not matter.
Triple H recounted Anderson’s words to Rhodes on the podcast. “Arn went off on this huge promo about, like, I don’t understand all of you. He said, you guys all see me as a big deal, right? And everybody’s like, yeah, you’re f**king Arn Anderson, one of the greatest of all time, blah, blah, blah. He said, I got a Hall of Fame worthy career. I’ve got all this stuff, right? He said, mid-carder. Nothing more ever. I never main evented a thing unless I was in the ring with Flair. If I was tagging with Flair, I was in the main event. If I wasn’t, nothing. I was a mid-carder. I was a guy there to get guys over on the way to getting up to the Dusties and the Flairs and the people like that. I was a mid-card guy,” Triple H said.
Triple H then recalled the point Anderson was building toward. “You guys see me as this unbelievable legend that you all listen to and all this stuff. But when it comes to your own careers, and many of you have already surpassed the position I was ever in, you’re miserable about it because you think that you haven’t reached the success of other things. But yet I see myself as having this amazing career, fed my family, I got to do things I would have never done. Incredibly successful. Like, man, what a journey I’ve had. But if I used your metrics to measure it, mid-card. I’m nothing. I never amounted to anything. They wasted my talents. They wasted my ability. They never did anything with me. You create your own bitterness,” Triple H recalled.
Triple H said that final line is the one that has stayed with him and shapes how he speaks to young talent today.
“That is the thing that is a pet peeve to me. Not because it bothers me, because it bothers me for them. There’s so many talent that I go like, dude, you have so much going on. You’re in a position that there’s a small handful of people on the planet are in that spot, and millions behind you that would cut off a limb to have that. And you’re miserable every day because you’re not considered the next guy,” Triple H said.
The full interview is available on the What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes YouTube channel and podcast feed.
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